So, Rolling Stone is reporting that Anthony Bourdain, TV’s most charming ex-junkie chef is teaming up with Queens of the Stone Age for an upcoming holiday special. I’m not a big QOTSA fan, maybe a QOTSA well-wisher (in that I wish them no specific harm) but I’m a big fan of Bourdain and this sounds like a kickass time:

If you are Anthony Bourdain, the punk-rock-loving world-renowned chef and star of the hit Travel Channel show No Reservations, sometimes you find yourself in Berlin boozing with Queens of the Stone Age. As the cocktails flow, the conversation morphs from the Ramones to kitsch, and before you know it you’re talking about super-cheesy Christmas variety-show specials in the Bing Crosby-hosts-David Bowie tradition. The result? Last week QOTSA played “Silver Bells” (renamed “Turkey Bells”) for a holiday-themed episode of No Reservations. “We just got a call saying, ‘Hey, we have a weird idea,’” frontman Josh Homme told us. “So when people come to us with that sort of a statement we are all ears.”

The show will also feature Japanese businessmen, karaoke, and if past shows are any indication— lots of drinking and chain-smoking. And even though Bourdain himself is not a musician, even without any QOTSA connection it seems appropriate to talk about him on Lineout. A hardened NYC cook who makes as many drugged-out allusions to the Ramones as he does Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, Bourdain has a manic passion for good food that matches the hedonistic excess of any rock band. If you’ve never read Bourdain’s account of his travels while working on a failed Food Network show, A Cook’s Tour, I highly recommend it. Never has eating the still-beating heart of a cobra sounded so vividly appetizing.